7/29/1991 BOARD OF SELECTMEN Minutes

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" r + ''* ..,BOARD OF SELECTMEN 'age MINUTES MONDAY, JULY 29, 1991 Board of Assessors t new or old, they haven'-t given us the reason. that they may be grant. in g the a.ba.t e ent s. They only have one reason states Selectman Ca 'fin and that is legally to establish a fair and equitable market value of property, It' s absoultely legal. how about a percentage states Selectman Lawrence? All I aim asking for is before six months goes down the road states Selectman Lawrence to Find out that they are granting these things at a greater rate and that our liability increases. We ,a; to have some idea of what they are doing and how they are doing it. Is it a problem that Mr. Morley granted a. tremendous amount of abatements to New Seabury before he left office states Selectman C a.ffyn' Is that a problem This is the kind of thing that your implying and I don' t think it is fair. I think they should be here if y u are bringing this issue up,, I thin - -the logical thing is t ask e� in put it on the agenda t ask them come in again next week states Selectman Jacobsone Tim, did you have any comments towards this discussion The other element involved states Tim Vaccaro is there are several hundred oases in the Appellate Court. That will obviously alter the picture one way or another* -boo hundred oases suggests Sel.ectr a.n C af fyn. Where we stand now with approximately a $216, 000 deficit, in answer to what Andy was talking about, 'if it goes too much higher than that, adjustments ents would most likely have to be made to the .FY 92 bu g t, The decision would be made at Town Meeting in October, Right now, t eats the point I was making suggested Mr. Lawrence. I'm talking of the deficit for FY 90 states fir. Vaccaro. The decision is to ' e made in October so we can balance our budget. But all of these facts are kno�pn states Selectman Ca fyn. hTe had 2500 abatements with over 900 that went o to the Tax Appellate Court last year. No one brought that to the attention of the Selectmen of' this happening. This is not nes news, this is old news. The tax abatement process of the tax appellate court had to happen last year for thew to even be heard noir. My concern wa.s that I was trying to get a handle on where we were go-ming states Selectman Gottlieb. last week. So you killed the Messanger states Selectman C . fyn, I didn' t kill anybody, excuse me states Thr. Gottlieb. I asked a couple of questions to try to get some information a.tion and didn' t get anything that approached a satitfactory answer, to it. If I were to try again, I think tha.ts. appropriate. I didn' t try to kill anybody. I resent that directed at rae states Selectman Gottlieb. I asked lir. Greig and the Assessor, I thought quite clearly and quite properly a couple of questions last week. If that is killing somebody I guess what I am saying Andy is this is not a new problem for these new assessors states Selectman Gaff n. This is with the older assessors not bringing the in ar ation to understand the full extent of the problem. The extent of the problem is tremendous. The amount of abatements and the ar.ount in the tax appellate court. . . I was trying to get a. handle of what the extent of the problem s stated Selectman Gottlieb.